Hair-fastener.



No. 628,596. Patented luly ll, I899. A. L. BATES.

HAIR FASTENE'R.

(Application filed May 9. 1899.!

(No Mam.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO L. BATES, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ALBERT W. WILLIAMS, OF SAME PLACE, AND GEORGE L. \VINN, OF JERSEY CITY, NEIV JERSEY.

HAIR-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,596, dated July 11, 1899.

Application filed May 9, 1899. Serial No. 716,168. (No model.)

T all whom it may rn: 'tive prongs a at an intermediate position on Be it known that I, ALONZO L. BATES, acititheir length or near the high part of their zen of the United States, residing at Leomincurvature, as shown. From the contacting ster, in the county of Worcester and State of sides the oblanceolate form of the tongue 5 Massachusetts, have invented a new and use converges to a rounded tip or pointed end 6, 55

ful Improvement in Hair-Fasteners, of which which is best slightly curved outward or in the following, together with the accompanyopposite direction to the curvature of the ing drawings, is a specification sufliciently prongs a. The resilient tension of the tongue full, clear, and exact to enable persons skilled F is suiiicient and so directed as to close the ID in-the art to which this invention appertains tongue down upon the back of the pin and to 60 to make and use the same. normally maintain the adjacence or contact The object of my present invention is to of its sides5with the prongs a; butsaid tongue provide a convenient, desirable, and efficient can. be sprung outward to allow the hairto coiifure pin, clasp, or fastener having means, pass thereunder by the wedging pressure of as described, for retaining the fastener in the the hair beneath the point 6 or by any pres- 65 hair and for confining loose or flying hairs. sure sufficient to overcome the resilient ten- To this end my invention consists in the sion of the material. The tongue F being improved article of manufacture contrived narrow at the neck 3 and then broadened and as a hair-fastener or coiffure-pin and emb'odybent so as. to contact, as shown, with the back ing the peculiarities of structure and eflect of the prongs affords inclosed wedge-shaped 7o specifically pointed out and explained in the spaces or openings 2', within which the hair following detailed description and shown in is quite securely confinedby the closing tendthe accompanying drawings, wherein-- ency of the resilient tongue.

Figure 1 is a perspective View representing In the operation the flyings or loose hair is my improved article. Fig. 2 is a top plan collected beneath the tongue or in the space 75 view. Fig. 3 is an under side View; Fig. 4, a 't', and the pin-prongs a are then inserted in longitudinal section at line W WV, and Fig. 5 the plaited or massed hair of the coifiure,

a transverse section at line X X on Fig. 2. some of which also occupies the space i, caus- My improved article is preferably made ing the fastener to be retained in position from celluloid, horn, or similar suitable ma- While it confines the loose hair or short tresses. 8o terial; and it consists of apin orfurcated por- Any stray or flying hairs can at any time be tion formed with two prongs a a, integrally caught or passed under the upcurved point united at their head I) and standing some disof the tongue by a properly-directed sweep of tance apart to afford an interspace 0 between the hand without removing the fastener from 5 them, the prongs being disposed nearly parthe coiffure. 85 allel, but preferably slightly spread toward The tongue can, if desired, be ornamented their points 6 e. The prongs are best more or on its surface or given a decorative outline less curved in their common plane, as shown. somewhat varying from that shown as a mat- Integral with the head portion atb and bendter of design, preserving, however, the essen- 40 ing over therefrom, as at d, I form a resilient tial features of the narrow neck and the broad- 9o tongue or springmemberF, that returns along ened portion with contacting sides 5, in effect the back of the prongs a, inclosing or formas described.

ing a wedge-shaped space or spacesz' between I am aware that different styles of pins and the prongs and tongue adjacent to the head stick combs have been "heretofore devised 4 5 bend cl. The resilient tongueF is shaped with having auxiliary prongs orbent-overends,and 5 a narrow neck portion 3 near the head bend I do not, therefore,herein broadly claim such 01 and thence broadened laterally somewhat features irrespective of the specific construcin the form of a leaf 4 or of oblanceolate contion and manner of operation; but tour and of such dimension that its edges 5 WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letat the broad part will contact with the respecters Patent, is I00 1. The improved article of manufacture hereinbefore specified, comprising a hair-fastener made of horn, celluloid or similar suitable material, having a plurality of prongs a integrally united at their top ends, and provided with an integral top extension bent outward and returned upon the prongs and form in g a resilient downwardly-springing tongue, shaped narrow at its neck 8, and spreading near its end across the interspace of the prongs, its sides 5 adjacently overlying or disposed for contact with the respective prongs at as at d, and extending along the back of the pin with an inward-springing tension; said tongue formed of oblanceolate shape with a narrow neck, a broad leaf portion adapted for contact at its respective sides 5 with the backs of said curved prongs, and an outwardly-curved tip end 6, said prongs and tongue embracing the wedge-shaped spaces i, substantially as shown and described.

Witness my hand this 29th day of April,

an intermediate position of their length, sub- 1899. I stantially as set forth. ALONZO BATES. 15 2. A coiffure-pin or hair-fastener made of Witnesses:

celluloid, horn or similar material, and consisting of two curved prongs integrally united A. A. RICHARDSON, FRED. I-I. COOK. 

